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Lalar Blanton, Lincolnton, North Carolina
Lewis Hine caption: Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moment's glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 10 years old. Been working over a year. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 1908.
This little girl, identified by Lewis Hine simply as "spinner," has been staring out the window for 105 years, waiting for someone to give her a name. The waiting is over. Her name is Lalar Blanton.
"Granny was my security, my safe place to fall. She was the softness and the love in my life." -Myra Cook, granddaughter of Lalar Blanton
Lewis Hine spent the whole month of November 1908, photographing children working in textile mills in North Carolina and South Carolina. He had begun traveling extensively for the National Child Labor Committee in August, first in the Midwest, and then in the South. With only three months of investigative work behind him, he was not well known among mill owners, so he generally had little trouble getting inside the mills. He usually posed as an industrial photographer looking to take pictures of machines and other equipment. He took only two pictures of child laborers in the Rhodes mill. This is the other one.
Lewis Hine caption: Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. Girl on left said she was 10 years old and been in mill a long time more than a year. Spinner girl on right said she was 12 years. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 1908.
It appeared obvious to me right away that the girl on the left was also the girl looking out of the window, and that the two persons with her were her mother and sister.
The girl looking out of the window has become one Hine's most beloved and talked about images. For his work, he used a large camera, with a wide-angle lens and a very slow shutter speed. He had to mount it on a tripod. Consequently, he usually posed his subjects, and tried to get them to hold still, not an easy task for a child. For the flash, he had to ignite magnesium powder, not a good idea in a lint-filled cotton mill; so he had to find a spot with adequate light. Hine would have understood that having the girl facing the light-filled window was ideal.
But most people think that there was another reason. The caption said, "A moment's glimpse of the outer world." It is easy to conclude that Hine was tugging at our hearts by placing the girl in that location to create a romantic image of a poor mill worker dreaming of a better life somewhere out there, or just wishing she were home. But all of Hine's captions were field notes he jotted down in a pocket notebook, and some were later edited and/or added to by the National Child Labor Committee. Hine often complained about that. So we don't know for sure what Hine intended, but we do know that he created a picture that is unforgettable.
But for some reason, Hine did not record her name. Perhaps the family was reluctant to reveal their names to a stranger.
Almost five years ago (2009), I began a search for the girl's identity. I asked the editor of the Lincoln Times-News, the newspaper that covers Lincolnton, to publish the photos and ask if anyone knew who she was. I had already used this method successfully for several other Hine pictures. The editor agreed to do it. The article said in part:
"The little girl staring out the window has no name and a very short story. At 10 years old, she had been working at Rhodes Manufacturing Company for more than a year. 'She has been anonymous for 101 years,' says Joe Manning, an author and historian. 'Whoever she was, someone remembers her and probably loved her and cared about her.'"
No one responded. So I posted the pictures on the Mystery Photos page of my website. Three years went by, and nothing happened. About six months ago, I saw a painting inspired by the photograph. It was by Dawn Nelson, who contributed a number of art works to a traveling exhibit called "The Mill Children." The exhibit has its origins in North Adams, Massachusetts, and is inspired by Hine's nine photographs of child laborers in the city at the Eclipse Mill, as well as others taken by Hine. I contributed stories of some of the children, and an educator and several other artists made contributions. When I saw Ms. Nelson's painting of the girl looking out the window, I decided to make another effort to identify her.
A couple of days later, I came up with a novel idea. I searched the 1910 Lincolnton census, and made a list of all the white girls who were born about 1898, and had a sister that was about two years older. There were 12 such girls, including one identified as Lala Blanton. I published those 12 names under the photos on my Mystery Photos page.
It occurred to me that there are thousands of people searching every day for information about their ancestors. What if the girl at the window was really one of those 12 persons, and what if someone was searching that name on Google and found the photos on my website? It was a long shot at best, but what other option did I have at that point?
Two months later, I received an email from a woman named Myra Cook.
"I think there is a real possibility that the little mystery girl in the photograph is my grandmother, Lalar Blanton. And in the other photograph, the mom and the two sisters are my great-grandmother, Susie Black Blanton, with Lalar on the left, and Ellen on the right. Susie looks very much like my father, who was her grandson. I'm not sure how to determine if I am correct, but perhaps you have some idea how to do that."
I quickly replied.
"This is very exciting, so let's work on seeing if we can establish if you are correct. The 1910 census lists Susan, Ellen and Lala (instead of Lalar) in Lincolnton. Lala is about 10 years old, and Ellen about 12 years old. Do you have any photos of Lalar, Ellen and Susan?"
A week later, she sent me several pictures of Lalar as an adult. I compared them to the girl in the Hine photos, and concluded that they were the same person. I showed them to three friends I hang out with at a local coffee shop, making sure I did not give them any hints ahead of time about what I thought. Not only did they come to the same conclusion, but several curious coffee drinkers from another table came over to see the pictures, and they agreed.
At that point, I emailed the photos to Maureen Taylor, a widely known face recognition expert whose expertise I have relied on in the past. She replied: "The faces match up perfectly!"
At the end of this story, I will illustrate how we came to this conclusion.
The only other photograph that Lewis Hine took at the Rhodes Mfg. Company mill.
Lewis Hine caption: Rhodes Mfg. Company, Lincolnton, N.C. Old man inspecting yarn. Been in cotton mills over 20 years. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 1908
"The current was turned on in the Rhodes Manufacturing Co. last week. The new mill is run by Southern Power company. The mill has 5,000 spindles and 150 looms, is modern in architecture, and has the best machinery equipment. Mr. John M. Rhodes is manager. This is the first mill to be started at Lincolnton with electricity." –Spartanburg Weekly Herald (South Carolina), November 14, 1907
The following are excerpts from Twenty-Second Annual Report of North Carolina Department of Labor, compiled in 1908.
LAW RELATING TO CHILD LABOR
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1: That no child under twelve years of age shall be employed or work in any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State. Provided further, that after one thousand nine hundred and seven (1907), no child between the age of twelve and thirteen years of age shall be employed or work in a factory except in apprenticeship capacity, and only then after having attended school four months in the preceding twelve months.
Section 2: That not exceeding sixty-six hours shall constitute a week's work in all factories and manufacturing establishments of this State. No person under eighteen years of age shall be required to work in such factories or establishments a longer period than sixty-six hours in one week: Provided, that this section shall not apply to engineers, firemen, machinists, superintendents, overseers, section and yard hands, office men, watchmen or repairers of breakdowns.
Section 3: All parents, or persons standing in relation of parent, upon hiring their children to any factory or manufacturing establishment, shall furnish such establishment a written statement of the age of such child or children, being so hired, and certificate as to school attendance; and any parent, or person standing in the relation of parent to such child or children, who shall in such written statement misstate the age of such child or children being so employed, or their school attendance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished at the discretion of the court. Any mill owner, superintendent or manufacturing establishment who shall knowingly or willfully violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished at the discretion of the court.
Section 4: After one thousand nine hundred and seven (1907), no boy or girl under fourteen years old shall work in a factory between the hours of 8 P. M. and 5 A. M.
Section 5: This act shall be in force from and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and eight (1908).
In the General Assembly, read three times, and ratified this the 9th day of March, A. D. 1907.
"In regard to the child-labor law, I think the law we have is very good and should be enforced. Since the children are out of the mills, we think it would be better to have them in school and keep them off the streets and out of danger of learning the vices so common in the towns." -J. M. Rhodes, President Rhodes Manufacturing Company, Lincolnton, published in the Annual Report of the North Carolina Department of Labor and Printing, 1908
According to Lincoln County Revisited, by Jason L. Harpe: "Rhodes was also responsible for the 22 mill houses that served the workers who made their living at the mill. E.O. Anderson, Thorne Clark and David Clark purchased the mill from Rhodes after World War I, renamed it Anderson Mill, Inc., and operated it until 1929. The group renamed the mill Massapoag and wove cotton duck to line shoes. Long Shoals Cotton Mill operated Massapoag from 1957 to 1971."
John M. Rhodes died in 1921. Ironically, the mill he built burned down this year, on June 17, 2013, two months before Lalar Blanton's granddaughter contacted me.
My caption: (L-R): Lalar, Susie, and Ellen Blanton, 1908. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Lalar Blanton was the second of four children born to Joseph P. Blanton and Susanna (called Susie) Frances Black, South Carolina and North Carolina natives respectively, who were married in about 1894. According to the North Carolina Birth Index, Lalar was born in Forest City, an unincorporated town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, on May 10, 1901. But the year is unlikely. If correct, Lalar would have been only seven years old when she was photographed by Lewis Hine. Looking at the pictures, that is hard to believe. She looks to be at least nine or ten. Hine said she was 10, probably because her mother told him so.
How old was she?
I obtained a copy of her birth certificate, but it turned out to be a "delayed birth certificate," meaning that it was applied for a substantial time after the birth. Births were not officially recorded in North Carolina before 1913, so anyone wishing to obtain an official birth certificate for a person who was born before 1913 must apply for a delayed certificate, and provide reasonable proof of date of birth.
Lalar Blanton's delayed birth certificate.
Lalar applied for her delayed birth certificate on January 20, 1961, six decades after she was born. As proof, she provided four items of "reasonable proof": Affidavit of Personal Knowledge from a younger sister; driver's license issued in Virginia in 1953, birth record of Ralph Cook, her son, issued in 1921 (on which her date of birth is listed); and life insurance policy issued in 1937. Although the State of North Carolina accepted this information, all of the items would have been obtained without official proof of her date of birth, since such proof did not exist. So the delayed birth certificate does not prove that she was born in 1901.
In the 1910 census, she was listed as 12 years old, living in Lincolnton, and working in a cotton mill. Lalar's mother probably gave the age to the census taker. The census was taken on May 4. Lalar's birthday was listed as May 10 on all of her important records, so it seems likely that May 10 is correct. What is debatable is whether the year was 1901.
If the 1910 census was correct, she would have been born in 1897, and would have become 13 years old, six days later. But since her birthday was only six days away, her age might have been given as 12, when she was technically still 11 years old. If that was the case, then she would have been born in 1898. Unfortunately, her family did not appear in the 1900 census, so we can't use that as further evidence. In subsequent censuses, Lalar gave her birth year as 1901, which is consistent with what she claimed on her delayed birth certificate, the supporting documents, and her delayed marriage certificate, also issued in 1961. But that didn't mean that she was correct. In those days, many people did not know for sure when they were born.
In my opinion, she was probably born in 1898, which would have made her 10 years old when she was photographed. But whatever is correct, she clearly worked at the mill illegally, according to the 1907 North Carolina law, especially since she stated that she had already been working in the mill for a year when Hine photographed her.
Lalar Blanton Cook, probably about 20 to 25 years old. All photos provided by Myra Cook, except those noted.
Lalar Blanton Cook (left), about 45 years old, with sister Lillie.
Lalar Blanton Cook, about 25 years old.
Lalar married Clemmie Zeno Cook on August 31, 1919, in Cleveland County, North Carolina. Known as Clem, he was a painter. They had two children. They lived in Washington, DC, for several years; and then lived a long time in the Portsmouth/Norfolk area of Virginia, before finally settling in Shelby, North Carolina. Clem died on October 22, 1971, at the age of 72. Lalar died on September 22, 1973, at the probable age of 75.
Lalar's mother Susie, pictured with her at the mill, died in 1961, at the age of 91. Lalar's father Joseph died in 1927.
Lalar's sister Ellen, also pictured at the mill, was born Barbara Ellen Blanton, in 1897. According to the 1930 census, she was living in Shelby, with her husband, June Moss, in a rented house right next to sister Lalar. They married in 1913. Ellen was a spinner in a cotton mill, and husband June was doing "odd jobs." In 1940, still childless, Ellen and June were living with Ellen's mother Susie. Both Ellen and her husband were working in a cotton mill. A year later, on August 3, 1941, Ellen died of a heart condition. She was only 44. I could find no further information about her.
Lalar Blanton Cook with granddaughter Myra Cook.
Lalar Blanton Cook, with 9-year old granddaughter Myra Cook.
Edited interview with Myra Cook (MC), granddaughter of Lalar Blanton. Interview conducted by Joe Manning (JM) on October 3, 2013.
JM: How did you find the picture on my website, and why did you think the girl was your grandmother?
MC: I was doing some research on my family history. My grandmother's first name was Lalar, but when I typed Lalar Blanton in Google, nothing came up. I thought about all the different accents in the country and how that could affect the way someone might spell Lalar if they heard it spoken. So I tried Lala Blanton, and I found the two pictures on your website, and a list of 12 girls that you thought could possibly be the girl. One of them on the list was Lala Blanton. I had seen the picture once before online, and I remembered the stories my grandmother told about being seven years old and having to pick cotton, but I didn't recall her talking about working in the mills. When I saw the pictures, I noticed a family resemblance, and I began to get excited about the possibility that she might really be my grandmother. So I contacted you.
JM: After you sent me some pictures of her, I was able, with the help of a face recognition expert, to confirm that the girl was your grandmother. When I told you that, how did you feel?
MC: I was amazed, but it made me feel sad for her, because she had to work so hard. She never had a chance to be a girl. I've always appreciated how good she was to me. She was so fiercely protective of me and wanted me to have a childhood. I am thinking that she might have felt that way because of what she went through.
MC: 1963. I lived with my grandmother from the time I was four-and-a-half years old, until I was about nine. She died when I was 10.
JM: Why did you live with her?
MC: My parents had a lot of problems that I would rather not talk about, and they just couldn't take care of me at that time. Granny was my security, my safe place to fall. She was the softness and the love in my life.
JM: What happened when she died? Who took care of you then?
MC: I went back and lived with my parents, until I was 12. Then they got divorced, and my mother and I moved to Indiana. Suddenly, I didn't live anywhere near my family, my aunts and uncles and cousins, or my childhood friends. It was hard.
(L-R): Lalar's son Ralph Cook, and her husband Clem Cook.
MC: She and my grandfather Clem had two sons, Howard, and my father Ralph. Both of them were born at home. At some point, my grandparents moved to Bowers Hill, Virginia, which is near Portsmouth. They also lived in Deep Creek, also near Portsmouth. My grandfather was a painter at the Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. At some point, they lived in Washington, DC, where my grandfather worked at the Naval Shipyard there, and also painted houses. In his later years, after he retired, he continued to paint houses. When they lived in Washington, my grandmother ran a boarding house. My grandfather had two brothers that also worked in the shipyard, and they lived with their families in the boarding house. I think my grandmother also drove a bus at some point. She was a big woman when I knew her. She was about 5′ 10″, and weighed about 200 pounds. It's funny. When you look at the picture of her looking out the mill window, you would never think she would grow up to be so tall. She was probably a tall child, too.
JM: When did they leave the Portsmouth area?
MC: They left in the 1960s, and went back to North Carolina. My grandfather had a stroke when I was five, but up until that time, he was painting houses. When he was in Washington, DC, he painted Kate Smith's house. He was so proud of that. (Smith was a singer remembered especially for her recording of 'God Bless America.')
JM: According to the 1930 census, your grandparents were living in Shelby, North Carolina.
MC: Yes. My dad and his brother were still little boys then.
JM: Your grandmother's delayed marriage certificate shows that she was married on August 31, 1919, when she was 18, according to her delayed birth certificate, although she gave her age as 19 on the marriage certificate. They were listed in the Washington directories from 1933 to 1936. In 1938, they were listed in the Norfolk (Va.) directory. In 1940, they were living in the Deep Creek section of Norfolk, and in 1944, they were living in the Bowers Hill section of Portsmouth. In the 1940 census, your grandmother was asked how far she got in school, and she said it was the fourth grade. And your grandfather said he had finished the seventh grade.
MC: I don't think the school information was correct. I always heard that my grandmother went to school until the second grade, but that doesn't mean she finished the second grade. And as far as I know, my grandfather only got as far as the fourth grade.
JM: Her death certificate says she died of a heart attack in Cleveland Memorial Hospital in Shelby.
MC: I think she actually died on the front porch.
JM: Had she been ill for a while?
MC: No. It was sudden.
JM: Where were you when she died?
MC: I was at school. My mom came to get me and told me there was something wrong with Granny. We went to the house. She went in while I stayed in the car. Then she came back, and as she was backing the car out of the driveway, she told me that Granny died. I remember that I was hysterical.
My grandfather had died when I was seven. I was at school when it happened, and nobody came to tell me. There were three girls who lived next door who went to school with me, and when school ended every day, there was a taxi that took us home. At that time it was a custom in the South that when somebody died, there would be a wreath on the door of their house, and the funeral home would put up signs in the immediate neighborhood. So when the taxi got near the house, we saw the signs and wondered who had died. Then we got to my house, and the wreath was on my door and I knew that my grandfather had died. So I guess that is why my mom fetched me from school when Granny died, so I wouldn't experience that trauma again.
JM: What did your grandmother tell you about her childhood?
MC: Sometimes when we were riding in the car and we would pass a cotton field, she would talk about how she had to pick cotton, and how it made her back hurt. I remember that I wanted to go pick cotton because I wanted to see what it was like. Several years ago, I was driving my daughter home from college, and we were talking about cotton fields, and we actually stopped by a cotton field so we could pick some. But it was raining, and my daughter didn't want to get wet, so I ran out quickly and picked a little bit of cotton and gave it to her. I think she still has it.
JM: When you knew your grandmother, was she fairly well off, or was she poor?
MC: She lived in a nice house, with a nice bathroom, a modern washing machine and an air conditioner. Everything was neat as a pin and spotless. It was the quintessential mid-century modern American home. After my grandfather died, she bought herself a Baldwin piano. She had never taken lessons, but she could play by ear. She did not trust banks, so she kept her money at home. She kept all her cash in a Cool Whip container in the freezer. When she died, they found $15,000 in the container. My grandparents had saved their money. My grandfather had a pension, and my grandmother had Social Security. Like most people during the Depression years, they were very thrifty, and paid for everything in cash.
JM: Did either of your grandmother's children go to college?
MC: No. My father Ralph served in the Marines in World War II. He was with the first wave of soldiers at Iwo Jima. He also served in Korea. After the World War II, he worked as a policeman in Colonial Heights, Virginia. So did his brother Howard. In his later years, my father worked as a cook, and when he died in 1987 from heart disease, he owned and operated the Rocky River restaurant in Chimney Rock, North Carolina. Howard worked at the Exxon facility in Norfolk, Virginia, and was president of the Joint Counsel of Oil Workers Union for the USA. I don't know what his specific job was. He died in 1999 from ALS (often called Lou Gehrig's disease).
JM: What did you do with your grandmother that was special?
MC: We played school, and I would be the teacher. I would read to her. I helped her make biscuits, which she made from scratch every single morning. She would use an old peanut can to cut the dough. She would make little shapes, just for me, from the leftover dough that was in between. She called them terrapins.
JM: Do you make biscuits?
MC: Absolutely. I learned from her, and I am proud of it. I still have the peanut can she used.
Lalar Blanton Cook, with sons Howard (left) and Ralph.
(L-R): Lalar, Susie and Ellen Blanton. Photo by Lewis Hine.
Saint Paul Baptist Church Cemetery, Casar , NC. Courtesy of FindAGrave.com.
Sharon United Methodist Church, Sharon, NC. Courtesy of FindAGrave.com
Sharon United Methodist Church, Sharon, NC. Courtesy of FindAGrave.com.
By Dawn Nelson (DawnNelson.org), inspired by Lewis Hine photograph of Lalar Blanton. Used with the artist's permission.
On March 22, 2014, four months after I completed this story, I received the following email from Jennifer Janisch, Lalar's great-granddaughter. She and her mother Myra Cook (Lalar's granddaughter interviewed in this story) visited the former Rhodes Manufacturing Company mill, where Lalar had been photographed in 1908 by Lewis Hine.
"My mother and I visited the mill where my great-grandmother worked as a child, along with her mother Susie and her sister Ellen. When we drove up, fire trucks and firefighters lined the street. They had just put out the third fire that had sprung up in the mill since it caught fire last summer. They told us we were lucky to have come upon it now, as it is scheduled to be razed to the ground next week. We took a couple of bricks and a couple wheels that previously had been attached to the bottom of the mill's doors (or perhaps were attached to the bottom of cotton looms or some sort of cart)."
"The roof was caving in, and it was clear the space had been used over the years by homeless people. I took one step inside, and suddenly felt something physically push me back out of the mill. It was the strangest feeling I've ever experienced, and I felt a sense of fright. Mom and I think it was Granny telling us: 'Get out of there; y'all have no business being in there. It's dangerous and dirty.' No doubt she had very rough memories of the place and wouldn't want us anywhere near it."
Former Rhodes Mfg Co, 2014. Photo by Jennifer Janisch.
How did Maureen Taylor and I conclude that the unidentified girl in the Lewis Hine photos was Lalar Blanton?
Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. Spinner. A moment's glimpse of the outer world. Said she was 10 years old. Been working over a year. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 1908, Lewis Hine
Rhodes Mfg. Co., Lincolnton, N.C. National Child Labor Committee. Girl on left said she was 10 years old and been in mill a long time more than a year. Spinner girl on right said she was 12 years. Location: Lincolnton, North Carolina, November 1908, Lewis Hine.
After granddaughter Myra Cook contacted me, she sent me two photographs of Lalar, one when she appeared to be in her twenties, and one when she was perhaps in her forties. I started by comparing the Hine photo of Lalar with her mother and sister, to the one when she was in her twenties.
Unidentified girl.
Lalar Blanton Cook, probably about 20 to 25 years old.
My first impression was that I was sure they were the same person. Both girls seemed to stare at me the same way. Obvious similarities were the high forehead; the "widow's peak" at the hairline; the eyebrows and eyes; and the shape of the nose, mouth and chin. The only thing that didn't match were the dimples on each side of the nose. But the photo to the right appeared to be a professional portrait that was colorized and "touched up," as people used to say. So it would make sense that Lalar had the dimples airbrushed.
Lalar Blanton, about 45 years old.
Then I compared the same Hine photo with the one of Lalar when she was in her forties. Everything matched this time except the nose. In the photo on the right, the lower half of her nose slopes out noticeably. That is not noticeable in the Hine photo.
Unidentified Girl at Window
So I compared the photo of Lalar in her forties to the photo of the girl looking out the window, focusing on the slope of her nose. Even at the age of 10, that slope is apparent.
All the people I showed the photos to: the guys at the coffee shop, and Maureen Taylor, the face recognition expert, cited the same similarities.
Maureen Taylor's website
*Story Published in 2013.
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Shulkin was scrutinized intensely after a VA inspector general found that he improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and taxpayer-funded airfare for his wife for a Europe trip last summer.
In the Healthline interview two weeks ago, Shulkin apologized for the incidents but insisted that he did nothing wrong and didn't commit any ethical violations.
This week, in his first media interview since that Healthline conversation, Shulkin told NPR, "There was nothing improper about this trip, and I was not allowed to put up an official statement or to even respond to this by the White House… I think this was really just being used in a political context to try to make sure that I wasn't as effective as a leader moving forward."
Shulkin added that the controversies that vexed him during his tenure at VA were "completely mischaracterized."
Shulkin told NPR that the trip's expenses were approved in advance by an internal ethics committee and that when the inspector general later didn't like the expenditures, Shulkin wrote a check to the government.
"No one's ever mentioned what the purpose of this trip was," he said. "This was the five allies conference, a trip that the VA secretary has participated in for 43 years with major allies. We had over 40 hours of direct meetings. I gave three separate lectures. This is our one forum where we share how to care for our veterans among all of our allies."
"This was being characterized as a European vacation, it was far from that," he added. "I went out, never used government money for that. The single expenditure spent was on a coach airfare for my wife who was officially invited. Everything was preapproved by our ethics committee. When the inspector general didn't like the way that my staff had handled the approval, I wrote a check back to the government."
Shulkin enjoyed support… until he was fired
Despite the controversies, several prominent members of Congress on both sides of the aisle remained in Shulkin's favor.
Rep. Phil Roe, the Tennessee Republican who chairs the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, voiced his support this week for Shulkin.
"I have enjoyed getting to know Secretary Shulkin, and I'm glad to call David a friend," Roe said in a statement. "I think he's done a fantastic job and I hate to see him go. That said, I respect President Trump's decision, support the president's agenda, and remain willing to work with anyone committed to doing the right thing on behalf of our nation's veterans."
Sen. Jon Tester, the Democrat from Montana who's the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, said in a statement that Shulkin had made real progress in "improving the VA's delivery of healthcare and benefits to our veterans," and he looks forward to "seeing if [Jackson] is up for the job."
Most of the nation's largest veterans service organizations — such as The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of America, and Paralyzed Veterans of America — stuck by Shulkin throughout his turbulent 13 months running the VA and didn't want to see him dismissed.
Officials at the Paralyzed Veterans of America said this week that the organization is "deeply disappointed" by Shulkin's removal.
"Given the vacuum that already exists in the senior leadership positions at the VA, this decision will only exacerbate the challenges VA faces as it works to implement meaningful reforms. We look forward to understanding more about the qualifications of Admiral Ronny L. Jackson, MD, to helm the VA during this critical time," the organization stated in a press release.
The organization noted that under Shulkin's leadership, "We have seen reform in VA healthcare, sorely needed improvements in the benefits and claims appeals process, and real accountability of the workforce. Veterans owe Dr. Shulkin a debt of gratitude for his service to this country while leading the VA."
Joe Chenelly, national executive director of AMVETS, said in a statement, "We are disappointed and already quite concerned about this nominee [Jackson]. The administration needs to be ready to prove that he's qualified to run such a massive agency, a $200 billion bureaucracy."
Officials at the Disabled American Veterans said in a statement this week that the organization is "extremely concerned about the existing leadership vacuum in VA. At a time of critical negotiations over the future of veterans' healthcare reform, VA today has no secretary, no undersecretary of health, and the named acting secretary has no background in healthcare and no apparent experience working in or with the department."
Not everyone sorry to see Shulkin go
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), a Marine Corps veteran, said in a statement that Shulkin "did nothing to clean up the culture of bureaucratic incompetence that he has defined the leadership at the VA."
Concerned Veterans for America, a conservative group funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers, was clearly pleased with Shulkin's removal.
"We are hopeful that this change will end the recent distractions at the VA and put the focus back on advancing policy that will ensure veterans get the healthcare and other benefits they have earned," the organization said in a statement.
Veterans advocate says firing is a mistake
Robert Walsh, a longtime veterans advocate and attorney for veterans who have a disability claim at the VA, said the move to fire Shulkin is a bad sign.
"Dr. Shulkin was brought in to run the VA health system. He was then and remains an authority on large healthcare networks," Walsh told Healthline. "A lot of changes need to be made to the pathetic VA benefits claims system, but total privatization will not serve the special patient populations served by the VA."
According to Walsh, veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and amputees can't be properly served by the private sector healthcare system in the United States.
"They cannot and will not," Walsh said. "They will be ignored to death by the money-grubbing bean counters in the private sector."
Senator and combat vet upset with firing
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), agrees.
Duckworth, a veteran who lost both her legs while flying her helicopter on a combat mission in Iraq, is former assistant secretary at the VA.
She said she has deep concerns about the firing.
"Good leaders see problems and try to solve them. Donald Trump sees problems and makes them worse. By once again choosing chaos over consistent leadership, Donald Trump is hurting veterans around the country," Duckworth said in a statement provided to Healthline.
Duckworth added, "Unlike so many Trump appointees, Secretary Shulkin was qualified and prepared for the job he was selected for: leading the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States and overseeing the administration of benefits to our veterans and their family members."
Duckworth acknowledged that Shulkin "made mistakes, for which he has publicly apologized, but he also demonstrated his commitment to our veterans and to improving the quality of VA services, which is more than I can say about the president or the privatization extremists who pushed Dr. Shulkin out."
Duckworth said that over the coming weeks, she'll carefully review Jackson's qualifications "to determine whether he has the best interests of our veterans at heart or whether he, like many in the Trump administration, wants to push VA down the dangerous path of privatization."
Duckworth said the next VA secretary must be able to protect the department from becoming consumed by partisan politics.
"I hope Dr. Jackson is someone who is willing and able to do that by continuing the important tradition of VA secretaries working in a bipartisan manner," she said.
Predicting the future of VA under Trump
Thomas Bandzul, a veteran and legislative counsel for Veterans and Military Families for Progress, has spoken many times before Congress on behalf of veterans.
He said he's heard from several people this week who have inside knowledge of what Trump intends to do with veterans' healthcare.
"I think the administration will be handed a huge budget from the next secretary, whoever that may be, and whatever did not get privatized in the next 8 to 10 months will be after that budget request," Bandzul told Healthline.
"VA disability benefits, healthcare, education, and all other aspect will be done away with as a cost-savings measure. Future veterans will be given checks, depending on their time in service and rank, if they've been in combat, what other achievements they've accomplished, and be told they are on their own. The end of VA," Bandzul added.
The general consensus, Bandzul said, "is that this firing is a political move so the friends of the people inside this administration can profit by outsourcing healthcare, and most likely all other aspects of the VA, to privately funded, for-profit organizations."
Bandzul said this will translate into "no services for our veterans and no future helping our disabled, and people in the private sector will become very wealthy. It is my guess that disability claims processing will disappear and a new, 'Well, you knew what might happen to you if you went into the military' philosophy will encompass all aspects of veterans' benefits."
Bandzul said new disability claims from veterans will be suspended from consideration in the near future, until a new board can be empaneled to review the claims process.
"This most likely will result in fewer or even no claims being paid going forward for an indeterminate time frame," he said. "I am sad this has taken place, and while this is a snap judgement of the situation, I believe all this will become clearer and clearer in the days, weeks, and months ahead."
Shulkin wishes his likely successor well
Meanwhile, on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" Thursday night, Shulkin reiterated that the privatization debate brought him down.
"There were some political appointees within my administration that didn't see it that way and really wanted us to take a much harder stance toward privatization," Shulkin said. "I wasn't willing to do that. I don't think that's the right thing for veterans, and I stood up against them."
Shulkin also had kind words and a bit of advice for his likely successor.
"I also know Dr. Jackson. He's a friend of mine. I have considerable respect for him," Shulkin told Cooper. "I will do everything that I can to help Dr. Jackson succeed in this position."
Shulkin said Jackson's job won't be an easy one.
"This is a tough position. There are 375,000 employees and a budget of close to $200 billion next year. It is going to be a challenge for anyone to take [this job]," he said. "I have confidence that Dr. Jackson is a person who is honorable and cares about our veterans."
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Siloam Springs: a hub for business
September 14, 2017 2:49 am by Samuel Cross-Meredith Views: 28
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A fall Saturday morning on John Brown University's campus is a special thing. For those who haven't experienced it, there's a light air that blows through campus as the heat breaks and leaves start changing from vivid greens to vibrant purples and reds. The students who aren't trapped by deadlines, essays, or tests see this as the perfect time to stroll down Siloam Spring's Broadway street for coffee, ice cream, or thrift shopping.
It has become a sort of tradition among college students to patronize local businesses, but the face of business in Siloam Springs's downtown area has changed dramatically in the past decades, from doctors' offices, dealerships, coffee shops, thrift stores, and ice cream parlors to a record store and even a J.C. Penny's back in the day. Things look different now, but just how different are they?
Siloam Springs, Arkansas has been recognized as a town for around 136 years, technically longer if one considers Simon Sager's settlement to be Siloam's true beginning. If that's the case, then the town was first called Hico, and saw its first settler, Sager, in 1834, making Siloam Springs around 183 years old. Sager settled around a mile west of where Siloam is now, and Sager Creek is named after him.
Now, think back to 1834: pre-Civil War America. What brought a man to a random spot in Northwest Arkansas and invited him to set up shop? Sager's arrival triggered a domino effect, and after him came many more settlers. Between 1834 and 1881, people were drawn mainly to the 28 natural springs that were initially thought to have medicinal properties. Contrast that image with the cafés and ice cream shops of Siloam today.
"I think in the past, the American Dream was more attainable, so when you got on your own, you started your own business. That's just what you did." That's Matt Feyerabend, who, along with his wife Meghan, owns Pure Joy Ice Cream and Feyerabend Photo Artists on Broadway. "Climbing the corporate ladder wasn't a thing because we didn't have big corporations back in the 20's."
Feyerabend believes along with many other entrepreneurs operating in downtown Siloam Springs that the town has a momentum unique in small-town America. "Somewhere around 2010, 2012, we started to realize there was a tiny amount of momentum in Siloam Springs to make this place special again," he said.
"Siloam Springs went through what a lot of cities in the United States went through: a bypass that rerouted traffic away from its epicenter."
Feyerabend is referring to what the highway system did to most of small-town America. When highways were taking hold of America around the 70's and 80's, most large corporations moved out of the centers of most towns to areas with more traffic, leaving those businesses that couldn't afford to move to stay behind and reconsider their goals. "It forced business to think differently about where they were located and what they provided, and it just made it more inconvenient to go downtown."
"We saw some momentum, and said '[Siloam Springs] is special.' And there's not just one or two people who think this. You feel alone if your neighbors don't share the same vision or excitement, and what we found was a lot of people who had the same vision and ideas and excitement for revitalizing the community." Feyerabend said.
Chris Moore, owner of Pour Jon's Coffee, shared this vision when he purchased the coffee shop in 2012. "We were pretty much all in, going to every restaurant every day, volunteering, you know, whatever we could do, and buying the business was just an all-in extension of that."
Even Pour Jon's new location, further east of downtown, was intentional. "We were wanting to move down main street. We felt this was the logical place to extend it, and we wanted to be a link to the Latino businesses up the street, and join them up with downtown. The area was so neglected and had so much potential," Moore said.
There are too many business in downtown Siloam Springs to write about in one article, but they all contribute to making Siloam what it is, developing the community both of JBU and the rest of Siloam.
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Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ Shūkan Shōnen Janpu) is weekly manga magazine in Japan which has run series such as Naruto, Dragon Ball, Bleach, and Hikaru no Go. The magazine is published by Shueisha's Jump Comics division.
There are monthly versions of Weekly Shonen Jump in the United States, Canada (English U.S. version), Germany, Sweden, and Norway. The monthly versions in the U.S., Sweden, and Norway are known as Shonen Jump, while the German version is known as BANZAI!. The U.S. version is published by VIZ Media. The German version is published by Carlsen Comics. The Norwegian and Swedish versions are published by Schibsted.
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Hall of Fame pitcher Phil Niekro -- famous for his wicked knuckleball that allowed him to pitch as an older guy -- has died.
The Atlanta Braves made the announcement Sunday, saying Niekro passed away Saturday in his sleep at his home in the ATL suburb of Flowery Branch. They say he'd been battling cancer for a while.
The Braves heaped praise on Phil ... "Knucksie was woven into the Braves fabric, first in Milwaukee and then in Atlanta. Phil baffled batters on the field and later was always the first to join in our community activities." They add that he was a longtime presence in their clubhouse and community for years to come after finally retiring from baseball in 1987.
Niekro was one of the rare knuckleball pitchers who could seemingly wield an uncontrollable and unpredictable pitch ... a rare skill that helped him stay on the mound well into his 40s, which isn't all that common in baseball (for pitchers, anyway). And, yes, his stuff was nasty.
He had a cumulative ERA of 3.35 over the course of his 23-year career, with a total of 3,342 strikeouts and a win record of 318. Phil got his start in the big leagues with the Braves in '64 and played for them until 1983, at which he began to bounce around a few different teams.
The man played for the Yankees, the Indians, the Blue Jays ... and finally, circled back to his first love and ended his career in Atlanta. During his final outing on September 27, he received a massive standing ovation from the crowd as he bid them and baseball adieu.
September 27, 1987: #Braves legend Phil Niekro made the final appearance of his 24-year big league career. The results weren't what he wanted, but listen to the ovation from a huge crowd at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. pic.twitter.com/DTCjz3pLBp
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You obviously watch The Bachelor, but what about Bachelor in Paradise? This spin-off started airing back in August 2014 and is just as juicy, dramatic, and tweet-worthy as the other show. The whole idea is that host Chris Harrison oversees a group of people who were on both The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Oh yeah, and it takes place in, of course, paradise, as the name of the show suggests. But even though you love nothing more than watching as many reality television shows as you can get your hands on, so to speak, there are a few problems with this one. Okay, okay, there are more than a few. You have definitely wondered why you're even watching. And there are a lot of other questions that you have on your mind when it comes to this show. Read on to find out the 15 most messed up things about Bachelor in Paradise.
If you remember Bachelor Pad and think that it seems super similar to Bachelor in Paradise, you're totally on the right track. Because the latter is a new version of the former. After Pad went off the air in 2013, the people behind the reality TV franchise decided to start a new show called Bachelor in Paradise. These are both essentially the exact same show. Yes, really. They both have people who used to be on The Bachelor and The Bachelorette and they are hanging out in a really hot and beautiful place. Hmmm... So one of the most messed up things about this show? The fact that it literally is another version of another show that was cancelled. Why does this show need to even exist at all? Why not just continue Bachelor Pad?! There's literally no reason to do this. It makes no sense at all.
Seriously, just Google any former contestants from the original shows in this reality TV franchise and you will find break up announcements. So it's literally like you're tuning into a show and agreeing that, yes, most of the so-called couples are going to break up. That's not the most fun thing to do. It's not anything even close to romantic. If the entire point of the original shows is that you are going to watch people fall in love and get ready to spend the rest of their lives together, why would you watch Bachelor in Paradise? That's probably a question that you're asking yourself a lot whenever you watch a new episode. Of course, this is a problem with The Bachelor too. How many couples didn't actually live happily ever after? Definitely not a lot of them. It's an unfortunate side effect of being on a reality show.
Okay, so it might sound a bit harsh to say that the people who appear on this reality show are not exactly fan favorites. But it's kind of true, don't you agree? If they were really meant to be on this show, then they would have won The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. It's tough to want to watch a show that includes former contestants from the original show since you figure that they were voted off or left the show for a reason. Do you really want to see these guys and girls again? Probably not. So it's tough to stay interested and invested in finding out what's going to happen since you feel like you've seen these people before and they left and you were okay with them being gone. You might feel kind of mean admitting that, but hey, this is the world of reality television and people say mean stuff all the time, so you're okay.
The weird thing about reality TV is that when it's really bad -- as in a poor quality show with awful people that you totally hate -- it's pretty good. Because your standards for reality shows are so different from scripted stuff like dramas or sitcoms. It's just a thing. But this show is honestly the worst of reality TV and that's something that is pretty messed up. You are going to see fighting, name calling, and generally bad behavior. While that might make you want to keep watching and that's definitely why the show is pretty popular, it also means that this show is the worst of what the genre has to offer. You're not going to feel motivated or inspired like you do if you watch a show that features real-life women starting businesses or living their amazing lives. That's definitely not going to happen.
Ashley is known as a "mean girl" and there's really no other way to say it. Her love interest Jared was into Calia instead of her and she totally freaked out about it. So what did Ashley do? She literally tried to sabotage Calia and make Jared think that she was the worst person ever. Yeah, you're cringing even just thinking about it because it's really that bad. Don't do that stuff. Just don't. Ashley even told Jared that Calia is a "robot" which would be hilarious if it wasn't so ridiculous (okay, it's still pretty hilarious, there's no denying that fact). It's seriously frustrating to watch something like this, and it makes you feel weird that this show is supposed to be entertainment. You just don't think that people should behave this way and it definitely takes away your enjoyment of the series. You'll probably stick to other reality shows.
Ashley strikes again. Yup, she definitely cried a lot during her season of Bachelor in Paradise, and a lot of people were super confused that although she kept saying that she was so happy and in love with Jared, she was sobbing for most of the episodes. You have to admit that these tears must have been totally and completely fake. Sure, you don't have any proof of that... but you never have any proof that any reality TV show is real, right? You're not new to this genre and you get that sometimes, what you're seeing is not totally real and that you're watching some manipulated and made up situations. That's just the way that this reality thing works. So you would guess that she's just pretending to cry so she can manufacture some drama. That's pretty messed up, right? She might not be the first person to do this, but when you know that something might not be totally real, you don't even want to watch. You would rather watch something scripted instead.
Did you know that Leah actually was already dating someone right before she appeared on her season of Bachelor in Paradise? Well, she totally was. She has said in interviews that she started talking to someone when she was literally on her way to film the show, and he ended up being her boyfriend. Hmmm. So based on that fact, you have to say that this show is pretty messed up since absolutely nothing makes any sense. If the stars are supposed to be totally single and available because that's the entire point of the show, but then you learn that not everyone is actually single, what are you supposed to think? How are you supposed to feel? It's hard not to feel betrayed, no matter how silly you feel for being that dramatic about it.
It's a staple of the reality TV genre that people say stupid, ditzy things. Sometimes they are funny. Other times, they hurt your brain and they don't make you even smile. Not even a little bit. Because again, your poor brain. You don't want to think that people can say things like this. You want to think that humanity is much smarter and more lovely than that. But, alas, that's just not the case. Take this quote from someone on Bachelor in Paradise: "We walk out onto this vista. I don't even know what a vista is, but we walk out onto it." How do you not know what a vista is? How is that even possible? You don't need to know who said that particular thing... unless you remember who said it and then you're cringing extra hard because now you've heard it twice. Unfortunately, this is not even the ditziest quote from this show.
Did you know that people actually go home early on this show? It makes sense that on a competition reality show, people are told to leave because they are voted off or they lose in another way. When it comes to Bachelor in Paradise, sometimes the contestants actually want to leave. So they do. They actually leave the show when they don't have to. Yes, that is a thing that happens. Let that sink in for a moment. Really think about it. If people want to leave your show, that proves that this is not a show that should exist, and maybe some things need to change. Like maybe this show should be cancelled. Hey, just being honest here. It definitely seems like a strange concept for a series and if people don't even want to stick around, then there are clearly a lot of problems that you don't even hear about.
If you don't know a ton about The Bachelor -- maybe you don't watch every single episode but you catch the recaps or hear your best friends talking about it (or you just notice that on Monday nights, everyone on your Twitter feed is freaking out) -- you at least know about Nick Viall. And you know that he is pretty much one of the most hated reality TV people out there. He's not known to be a super sweet guy, that's for sure, and he's also said to be pretty boring. You probably know that you don't want to watch a boring person when you're checking out a reality TV show. Those two things are totally polar opposites. At the very least, people absolutely loathe the fact that Nick Viall wears turtlenecks, and while that might seem like a silly reason to hate someone, maybe you hate turtlenecks too. He's even fought with Jax Taylor from Vanderpump Rules so that's just another reason why he's not a fan fave.
And that's a bad thing? Well, you have to admit that no matter how much you might enjoy the eye candy, this is a messed up thing about Bachelor in Paradise. Because it's admitting that the only interesting thing about these guys is the fact that they are some serious eye candy. Sure, they are hot and beautiful and whatever positive adjective that you want to use, but they must have other qualities, right? Aren't they real human beings that deserve some respect and compassion? Okay, you might sound kind of crazy for thinking that about people on a reality show, or at least that's what most people would say to you. But you don't want women to be reduced to bodies in bikinis because that's super discriminating, so you might as well think that it works both ways and that you don't want to see shirtless guys in every single episode of a show.
4 Two Words: "Bad Chad"
"Bad Chad" is the nickname for Chad Johnson, who is someone that ended up being sent home when he was on Bachelor in Paradise. He yelled some super violent things at the other cast members, which was pretty awful to watch, and it seemed like way too much. He was pretty mean and he also talks about, um, more intimate activities in such a vulgar way, it seems like it shouldn't have even been aired. Hey, you're no prude, but this is just a bit much to take. You probably didn't like him from the moment that you saw him on television and then you had to see him again on this spin-off show, so that's another reason that this series is pretty messed up. You don't want to keep seeing a bully over and over again and you don't think that saying that someone is a good "reality TV villain" is reason enough to cast this guy.
As mentioned before, the guys are hardly ever wearing shirts, and the women on the show are pretty much always wearing skimpy outfits as well. And that's not the best thing ever. In fact, it's the worst. This show is absolutely discriminating about both genders and that's a reason that you don't want to watch (and why you wish that you could stop, but hey, you're too far gone now and you can't seem to stop yourself). Haven't we moved on from the idea that guys and girls need to be scantily clad all the time? Sure, these people are on a beach and it's paradise and all that, but isn't it time to class up the joint a bit? Even a little tiny bit? It's 2017. Women are so much more than just bodily objects and men are too. It's time for this to change. Of course, you know that it's not going to, at least not as long as this show is on the air, and that's another reason that it's pretty problematic.
Yup, people do get paid a salary to star on a reality television show. Which just proves that things are manufactured and made up because this is a job like any other. It turns out that the contestants on this show get paid differently depending on who they are. And that's not great. People should be treated equally when it comes to absolutely everything and money is one of those things. One of the cast members, Steve, has said about the whole deal: "They were given a flat contract, bigger names got bigger money." Of course, actual figures aren't available but that's okay. You don't really want to know anyway. Okay, that's a total lie. Of course you want to know. But you get that it's best to keep money matters as private as possible. It's just not great to know that people are paid on different salary scales.
There are some reality shows that are incredibly popular, like Catfish and The Real Housewives Of New York, and you don't mind telling your BFFs that you are super obsessed. Chances are, they are watching them too, and you guys chat about the latest happenings all the time. You're fans of Nev and Max and Bethenny and Carol and you look up to them as inspiring and cool famous people. That's just not the case with Bachelor in Paradise. Even if you watch The Bachelor or The Bachelorette and don't mind admitting it, because everyone that you know is always tuning in and tweeting about it, you're a bit ashamed to admit that you watch this beachy spin-off. You just don't want people to know. and you would rather keep it a secret. And that really says it all. This show is just not worth it.


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Облігації місцевих позик — облігації, емісійні цінні папери, що розміщуються на підставі рішення Верховної Ради Автономної республіки Крим або міської ради відповідно до вимог, установлених бюджетним законодавством.

Не дивлячись на те, що у визначенні облігацій місцевих позик є слово «папери», проте у паперовому вигляді вони не існують. Обіг облігацій здійснюється виключно в електронному вигляді.

Загальна інформація

Поняття облігацій місцевих позик
Облігації місцевих позик є інструментом залучення грошових коштів для потреб місцевого розвитку.

Емітентом облігацій місцевих позик може бути Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим або міська рада, що від свого імені розміщує облігації і бере на себе зобов'язання, що випливають з умов розміщення цих облігацій, перед власниками облігацій.

Розміщення облігацій здійснюється на підставі Проспекту емісії.

Номінальна вартість облігації визначається в національній валюті або, якщо це передбачено умовами розміщення облігацій, в іноземній валюті.

Сукупний обсяг запозичень до місцевого бюджету у формі розміщення (випуску) облігацій не може перевищувати обсягу дефіциту бюджету розвитку місцевого бюджету на відповідний рік. Кошти від розміщення облігацій, які отримує емітент, залучаються до фінансування лише бюджету розвитку відповідного місцевого бюджету. Видатки на обслуговування боргу місцевих бюджетів не можуть щорічно перевищувати 10 відсотків видатків від загального фонду відповідного місцевого бюджету протягом будь-якого бюджетного періоду, коли планується обслуговування боргу.

Види облігацій місцевих позик
До облігацій місцевих позик належать облігації внутрішніх та зовнішніх місцевих позик.

Облігації місцевих позик можуть розміщуватись як: відсоткові та дисконтні облігації; звичайні (незабезпечені) та забезпечені.

Емісія, обіг та погашення облігацій

Емісія
Рішення про емісію цінних паперів може приймати виключно Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим або міська рада, які і виступають емітентами. Саме вони затверджують Проспект емісії. Проведення емісії цих облігацій потребує надання висновку Міністерства фінансів України.

Емітент може здійснювати відкрите (публічне) та закрите (приватне) розміщення облігацій. В будь-якому разі допускається самостійне розміщення або із залученням андеррайтера.

В разі надання згоди Національної комісії з цінних паперів та фондового ринку на проведення емісії, розміщення цінних паперів здійснюється на підставі Тимчасового свідоцтва, виданого цією комісією. Після завершення емісії видається Свідоцтво про реєстрацію випуску облігації.

Реєстрацію випуску облігацій місцевих позик здійснює Національна комісія з цінних паперів та фондового ринку в установленому нею порядку. Національна комісія здійснює реєстрацію випуску облігацій місцевих позик в Державному реєстрі випусків цінних паперів.

Обіг
Обіг облігацій дозволяється після реєстрації реєструвальним органом звіту про результати розміщення облігацій та видачі свідоцтва про реєстрацію випуску облігацій.

Погашення
Погашення облігацій здійснюється грошима відповідно до умов розміщення облігацій. Строк погашення облігацій не повинен перевищувати одного року з дати початку погашення.

Погашення облігацій, номінальна вартість яких визначена в іноземній валюті, здійснюється в іноземній валюті або в національній валюті за валютним (обмінним) курсом іноземної валюти, установленим Національним банком України на дату початку погашення облігацій.

Облігації зовнішніх позик
Не дивлячись на те, що закон передбачає можливість розміщення облігацій зовнішніх місцевих позик, проте довгий час діяла заборона на таке розміщення.

На сьогодні ця заборона знята, проте відповідний порядок розміщення зовнішніх місцевих позик не затверджений.

Див. також
 Облігації
 Міська рада
 Облігації внутрішніх державних позик

Джерела
 Павлов, В. І., І. І. Пилипенко, І. В. Кривовязюк. «Цінні папери в Україні: Навчальний посібник.–Видання 2-ге, доповнене.» К.: Кондор (2004): 400.
 Пилипенко, І. І., О. П. Жук. Цінні папери в Україні: навчальний посібник. ІВЦ Держкомстату України, 2001.
 І. О. Єфіменко, Н. В. Шибаєв. «Облігації внутрішніх місцевих позик.» К.: Міжнар. центр приватизації та менеджменту (1996).
 Тимошенко, О. «Вплив державного регулювання на становлення і розвиток ринку облігацій місцевих позик України.» Ринок цінних паперів України 11-12 (2008): 25-30.
 Штерн, Г. Ю., О. А. Карлова, and К. В. Погосьян. «Розвиток муніципальних облігацій в Україні.» Научно-технический сборник. Коммунальное хозяйство городов (2006): 323—327.

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REMAINING GAMESThursday, April 4: Ottawa at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
April 2, 2013: Ryan Miller plays his 492nd game in the NHL, breaking Dominik Hasek's franchise record for most games played by a goaltender.
According to NaturalStatTrick.com, Olofsson ranks among Buffalo's leaders in shots (3rd, 10), shot attempts (T-2nd, 18) and scoring chances (2nd, 9) in his three games with the team.
He is also among the team's leaders at 5-on-5 during those games in corsi for percentage (2nd, 62.50%), shots for percentage (2nd, 66.04%) and scoring chance percentage (T-1st, 66.67%).
According to NaturalStatTrick.com, Montour's CF%, FF% and SCF% during 5-on-5 play through 17 games with the Sabres top his full-season rates in each of those categories from both of his first two NHL seasons, as well as his rates through 62 games with Anaheim this season.


Dr. Drew Westen is a Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University. After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree at Harvard, Westen picked up a Master's in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex in England. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Michigan.
The idea of the mind as a cool calculator that makes decisions by weighing the evidence bears no relation to how the brain actually works. When political candidates assume voters dispassionately make decisions based on "the issues," they lose. . . .
In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins. Elections are decided in the marketplace of emotions, a marketplace filled with values, images, analogies, moral sentiments, and moving oratory, in which logic plays only a supporting role. . . . The evidence is overwhelming that three things determine how people vote, in this order: their feelings toward the parties and their principles, their feelings toward the candidates, and, if they haven't decided by then, their feelings toward the candidates' policy positions.
The people at Fox News have been operating from this premise for years. On Fox, the news is presented from an emotional perspective (i.e. fear and outrage about terrorism, indignation about government spending, patriotic devotion to whomever or whatever principle is singled out for such allegiance). Opposition political candidates (Democrats) are usually portrayed as contemptible, flawed individuals. As a result, Fox has enjoyed tremendous success at shaping public opinion and influencing the electorate. Dr. Westen's book appears likely to help one understand why.
The 2008 candidacy of Barack Obama presented a unique challenge to Fox News: A Democrat finally had a campaign based on an emotional appeal, conveyed with the single word, "Hope". Despite the rational campaign strategy developed by Mark Penn for Hillary Clinton, (and continued by the McCain campaign) which posed the question: "Who is Barack Obama?" – the voters followed their emotions and voted for "Hope".
At this point in the Obama Presidency, people from across the political spectrum (especially the Left) are still pondering Mark Penn's 2008 question: "Who is Barack Obama?" As I have frequently pointed out on this website, Obama has been repeatedly criticized (by his former supporters) as a cynical, narcissistic individual, who has carefully created a Rorschach-esqe public image, shaped by whatever characteristics the individual audience members would choose to project back onto their perception of the man himself. Obama has been able to conceal his flexible, mercenary agenda behind the Rorschach screen and until recently, few have bothered to peek behind it.
Barack Obama is a lot of things – eloquent, dissembling, conniving, intelligent and above all, calm. But one thing he is not is weak.
The president is fond of referring to "the arc of history," paraphrasing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous statement that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." But with his deep-seated aversion to conflict and his profound failure to understand bully dynamics – in which conciliation is always the wrong course of action, because bullies perceive it as weakness and just punch harder the next time – he has broken that arc and has likely bent it backward for at least a generation.
When Dr. King spoke of the great arc bending toward justice, he did not mean that we should wait for it to bend.
IN contrast, when faced with the greatest economic crisis, the greatest levels of economic inequality, and the greatest levels of corporate influence on politics since the Depression, Barack Obama stared into the eyes of history and chose to avert his gaze. Instead of indicting the people whose recklessness wrecked the economy, he put them in charge of it. He never explained that decision to the public – a failure in storytelling as extraordinary as the failure in judgment behind it. Had the president chosen to bend the arc of history, he would have told the public the story of the destruction wrought by the dismantling of the New Deal regulations that had protected them for more than half a century. He would have offered them a counternarrative of how to fix the problem other than the politics of appeasement, one that emphasized creating economic demand and consumer confidence by putting consumers back to work. He would have had to stare down those who had wrecked the economy, and he would have had to tolerate their hatred if not welcome it. But the arc of his temperament just didn't bend that far.
The most charitable explanation is that he and his advisers have succumbed to a view of electoral success to which many Democrats succumb – that "centrist" voters like "centrist" politicians. Unfortunately, reality is more complicated. Centrist voters prefer honest politicians who help them solve their problems. A second possibility is that he is simply not up to the task by virtue of his lack of experience and a character defect that might not have been so debilitating at some other time in history. Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted "present" (instead of "yea" or "nay") 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.
A somewhat less charitable explanation is that we are a nation that is being held hostage not just by an extremist Republican Party but also by a president who either does not know what he believes or is willing to take whatever position he thinks will lead to his re-election.
Or perhaps, like so many politicians who come to Washington, he has already been consciously or unconsciously corrupted by a system that tests the souls even of people of tremendous integrity, by forcing them to dial for dollars – in the case of the modern presidency, for hundreds of millions of dollars.
With the passing of time, the likelihood that Barack Obama will be a single-term President increases dramatically because Americans are now scrutinizing him from a more judicious perspective. Who will become the Independent candidate to return that forgotten emotion of hope to the disillusioned electorate?


From the mind of bestselling author James Patterson comes the most thrilling television show in years! Animals have been hunted, enslaved, and slaughtered by humans for millennia...now it's their turn. From Africa to Los Angeles, humans are viciously attacked by animals. When a maverick zoologist (James Wolk), a French intelligence agent (Nora Arnezeder), and an activist blogger (Kristen Connolly) investigating the phenomenon, they discover the attacks are motivated by something far deadlier than animal instinct.
Length 8 hrs. 59 mins.
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The search for the ninth planet in our Solar System has revealed a distant dwarf planet orbiting far beyond Pluto.
An illustration showing the orbit of newly-discovered dwarf planet 2015 TG387 with the planets of the Solar System.
Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science.
A distant object has been discovered on the edge of the Solar System far beyond Pluto, and its orbit may signify the existence of a ninth Solar System planet even farther out.
The newly-found dwarf planet, named 2015 TG387 but nicknamed 'The Goblin', is located about 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun.
Pluto, by comparison, is about 34 AU from the Sun.
Is Planet Nine tilting our Solar System?
The object was discovered by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science, along with Northern Arizona University's Chad Trujillo and the University of Hawaii's David Tholen.
It is so far away that, even though its orbit is elongated, or elliptical, it never comes closer to the Sun than 65 AU.
"We think there could be thousands of small bodies like 2015 TG387 out on the Solar System's fringes, but their distance makes finding them very difficult," says Tholen.
"These distant objects are like breadcrumbs leading us to Planet X," says Sheppard.
The orbits of the 2015 TG387 and its fellow 'Inner Oort Cloud objects', 2012 VP113 and Sedna, compared with the rest of the Solar System.
2015 TG387 was first observed in October 2015, and follow-up observations were made in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 to determine its orbit.
It's thought to have a diameter of about 300 kilometres, making it a relatively small dwarf planet.
Computer simulations run by the team revealed the effect that different hypothetical Planet X orbits would have on the orbit of 2015 TG387.
Most of the simulations revealed that 2015 TG387's orbit is stable considering the age of the Solar System, but that it is being shepherded by Planet X's gravity.
This shepherding could explain why the most distant objects in the Solar System have similar orbits, according to the team.
"What makes this result really interesting is that Planet X seems to affect 2015 TG387 the same way as all the other extremely distant Solar System objects," says Trujillo.
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The world will look nothing like it did in the past, we are undergoing a period of digital transformation. The American Dream is no longer what it used to be; Capitalism is shrinking, and technology is taking the jobs of the working-class. Americans are having trouble finding their place in society because technology has taken the role of human physical presence. The past American Dream offered a pre-determined agenda that was simple to complete, founded on simple jobs like "factory worker", "waitress" or "cashier", but now these 'stable' positions are all disappearing. Navigating the former route of the American Dream is not an option because it is no longer so set in stone. Life proves to be unpredictable, and same with the direction of the American Dream. New jobs are emerging on the web, and we must adapt to this digital transformation, even if it means adjusting our American Dream. We can no longer settle for one job, rather settle when the jobs are done.
We must cope with the fact that there is almost no room to climb up the capitalist ladder anymore. We must work with the ones at the top in order to expand our overall potential for success. Platform companies control most of the IoT and technologies that come with it. They offer many opportunities for businesses to grow: Shopify, Amazon, and Facebook offer many services to help customers and sellers engage in business, Ziosk offers an easy-to-use food ordering service for dine-in customers at Applebee's and other restaurants, and Microsoft Office changed the way we create and submit reports. Neglecting these innovations will leave you behind, there is much success to be gained by properly utilizing these technologies.
We must not learn a specific set of skills, rather a much broader set of technology skills that cover multiple fields. Being F.A.I.R. will help people transition into their new skills. F.A.I.R. people will always be innovating new products/services, so no longer can we restrict our skills, we must anticipate and adapt to change.
Achieving the American Dream is still possible, but it requires a new route to success. We must expand our knowledge in different fields rather than one to adapt to the never ending changes we will face. We cannot have a narrow focus to our next step in life when the future requirements to our jobs require us to think more broadly. Being able to adapt to change, "learn, unlearn, and relearn", will help us reach the next chapter in our lives.
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In "Digital Transformation Final Summary" by Andrew Imbesi, many great points were made, as well as some statements I do not completely agree with. Technology is something that has come a very long way throughout history and is something that will not stop any time soon if ever. The technological advancements that our society as a whole has made has even began to take the role of humans. Many different jobs that humans used to do, have been taken away by new advances in technology. The American dream that we all knew is not the American dream of today. In today's world, in order to live the American dream, one must be able learn and adapt to new things throughout their entire career. The idea of the changing in technology, one must be able to adapt to new things and incorporate them into their skillset. Even though this is very true, jobs such as police officers, carpenters, electrician, plumbers, and many other craftsmen are jobs that still require humans to work, at least for now. In the article, Andrew Imbesi states "We must cope with the fact that there is almost no room to climb up the capitalist ladder anymore." Although this is partially true, capitalism is not completely dead, as businesses are still being opened and people are still needed. In addition too, people from all over the world are still coming to the United States of America to live out the American dream. These people need to be able to adapt and learn new ways of technology as well, because if you do not, you will be left behind, as the rest of society continues to catapult further into more technological advances. All in all, as technology continues to grow in our society, opportunities will diminish, as well as open. The American dream is far from dead, but is rather changing.


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Fabian Eisele (* 10. März 1995 in Stuttgart) ist ein deutscher Fußballspieler.

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Der im Stuttgarter Stadtteil Bad Cannstatt geborene Eisele spielte in der Jugend zunächst für den TSV Münchingen und die Stuttgarter Kickers, von denen er 2010 zum Stadtrivalen VfB Stuttgart wechselte. In der Saison 2011/12 wurde er mit der B-Jugend der Cannstatter Deutscher Vizemeister. Beim Mercedes-Benz Junior Cup wurde Eisele 2013 Torschützenkönig. Zur Spielzeit 2014/15 wurde er in den Kader der zweiten Mannschaft des VfB Stuttgart aufgenommen. Mit dem VfB II gab Eisele am 26. Juli 2014 am 1. Spieltag der Saison 2014/15 in der 3. Profi-Liga gegen Dynamo Dresden sein Profidebüt und erzielte dabei ein Tor. Zur Spielzeit 2015/16 wechselte er zur zweiten Mannschaft von Hertha BSC. Nach zwei Jahren in Berlin wechselte er zu Beginn der Saison 2017/18 zum Drittligisten FSV Zwickau. Zur Saison 2018/19 wechselte Fabian Eisele zum 1. FC Saarbrücken in die Regionalliga Südwest. Nach der Vizemeisterschaft im ersten Jahr gelang ihm mit dem FCS in der Saison 2019/20 als Meister der Aufstieg in die 3. Liga. Im DFB-Pokal 2019/20 erreichten die Saarbrücker sensationell das Halbfinale. In Saarbrücken wurde Eisele von Trainer Lukas Kwasniok im Sommer 2020 aussortiert und er unterschrieb einen Vertrag beim TSV Steinbach Haiger. In Steinbach kam er allerdings nicht so zurecht, löste seinen Vertrag auf und wechselte kurz vor Transferschluss Anfang Oktober 2020 zum FC Carl Zeiss Jena in die Regionalliga Nordost. Mit Jena erreichte er in der Saison 2021/22 Rang zwei hinter dem BFC Dynamo. Anschließend gab der FC 08 Homburg den Wechsel des Stürmers zum Sommer 2022 bekannt.

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 Hessenpokalsieger: 2020
 Thüringenpokalsieger: 2021, 2022

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Fußballspieler (VfB Stuttgart)
Fußballspieler (Hertha BSC)
Fußballspieler (FSV Zwickau)
Fußballspieler (1. FC Saarbrücken)
Fußballspieler (TSV Steinbach Haiger)
Fußballspieler (FC Carl Zeiss Jena)
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Geboren 1995
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